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2004/02/10, 09:55 PM
I regret violating the unspoken "keep your posts in one section" rule, but I've received no response in the nutrition category and a really need some answers before a lot of hard work is ruined. I've "cut and pasted" the original message which I entitled in the nutrition area "Alarming Weight Gain."
As I mentioned on the "newbie" forum, I am a 43-year-old, 5'6" male who dropped his body weight from 252 pounds (May 13, 2002) to (at my lowest, May 20, 2003) 147, a 105 LB drop. My dotor, trainer *and* nutritionst all believed that I lost too much weight and should add some muscle mass. That is now happening, but WAY too fast! I am extremely skeptical that this huge gain (I now weigh 160 even), the gain going from December 17, 2003 to present could be muscle and not fat. I read about bodybuilders who complain that they can't gain five pounds in a YEAR, and here I've gained 15 pounds of muscle in a month???? I don't think so!! My profile (lose weight, sedentary male) states that I should be eating 2400 calories. Yet I'm gaining phenomenal weight after *raising* my calories to 2000!! (I raised from 1600 to 2000 around December 17.) Now I fully understand that this 400 calorie increase will indeed cause some gain, but this fast?? I work out for 1 hour with a trainer twice per week. I constantly walk or run but don't "count" it unless it's formal (e.g. doing a block of time on a treadmill at the gym), so, to be honest, I'm not that sedentary, but I'm no athlete, either.
My diet is fairly rigid and VERY clean. sample daily menu is cereal for breakfast (small servings of a combination of "Keto" lo-carb, Hi-Lo , 1/4 cup Can' Crunch PB cereal (for the fat, per a Men's Health recipe)and Fiber-One. For "milk", I use a Met-RX low carb protein RTD, so I'm getting about 58G protein, 5G fat, 62G carb at about 450 calories. Lunch is whatever my cafeteria serves, made very low fat (e.g chicken fajitas, hold the sour cream and cheese)--about 300 to 400 calories. Mid-meal, a protein bar (I like Tri-O-Plex. A lot of fat (10g), but I'm under orders to raise my fat anyway--360 calories). Mid-day, some vegetables (peppers, broccoli, carrots in small doses); dinner is often a dietary version of chicken parm (4 oz breast meat grilled on a whole wheat fat-free wrap with 1 oz low fat mozerella cheese and a tablespoon of tomato sauce--400 calories) and a salad (fat free Italian dressing, 1 teaspoon bacon bits are my only "extras" on the salad.) I stop eating by 8.
Supplements: Creatine (45 calories--"Trac" brand) ONLY on workout days, multivitamins and minerals, L-Carnitine (1 gram), Vitamin C (grand total about 3 grams), Secretagogue-One (45 calories) at bedtime. What am I doing wrong?
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